+Forest-Ghost Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Hello, I am trying to find a way to share an image on my cache page so that the picture is at full resolution. When I upload the image to geocaching.com, the website lowers the image quality so it looks a little fuzzy. When I upload the image to an outside image hosting website, for some reason the image appears as "crunched" or shrunken on the cache page (will upload pic). The image was made in photoshop and I have tried uploading it with a width of 670, 800, and 669. Does anyone know why this image would be altered? I have tried uploading to 5 different image hosting sites now and they all display the image in the same way. The second pic is how the letter should appear. Quote Link to comment
+kunarion Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 (edited) I uploaded it to a cache gallery and don't see any difference between the one above and the uploaded one. Is the one posted a fuzzy version or a good one? I usually run my web browser with a zoom of up to 150%, but that tends to make photos look bad. Unless the white border is part of the puzzle, you could do away with that and have a larger "letter" and larger text that's still sharp (depending on how you made the image). The site currently seems OK with images less than 2000 x 2000 pixels, where the image arrives as is, not resized nor compressed. But this changes frequently, and sometimes temporarily gets way out of whack. I don't know what could cause the file to be smashed like the first one, but I don't bother with picture hosting sites except for mine. I once uploaded a PDF file to my own site so that people may easily print a full-page puzzle form, for a cache. Edited August 14, 2018 by kunarion Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 For about $5 a month you can get your own web hosting service, and the images can be any size you like. That is my recommendation. 1 Quote Link to comment
+on4bam Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Your own hosting is the way to go, all "free" services will fail you, if not already now, they will in future. 1 Quote Link to comment
+GeoElmo6000 Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 (edited) I always use the geocaching page as an image host for my puzzle caches. You can get two levels of quality from your photos on the geocaching listing. If you upload a photo to the cache page, you'll get a link to the image in this format: https://img.geocaching.com/cache/large/imageabc123.jpg You can remove the word "large" to get a bigger (uncompressed?) image https://img.geocaching.com/cache/imageabc123.jpg In the image I used as an example from one of my listings, the first image, when opened and saved to my desktop, was 104KB, while the second was 550KB. I had to use the second, uncompressed image, for one of my puzzles, which had an image hidden within another image. The compressed image didn't work with the tools required to find the hidden image, but using the uncompressed image worked. Does that help? I hope so. Edited August 14, 2018 by GeoElmo6000 Gave an example from one of my puzzles Quote Link to comment
+Forest-Ghost Posted August 14, 2018 Author Share Posted August 14, 2018 Hi GeoElmo6000, That does indeed sound like exactly what I am looking for. My photo links all look something like this though: h ttps://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/903c9086-234d-43b7-8cec-e4eba8d44463_l_l.png So I am not sure where to find the "img.geocaching.com/cache/large" extension for my photos. I goto my cache page, hit edit, scroll down to the bottom and hit "upload image." Is there a separate location where I should be uploading to? How do you get that extension on your photos? Thanks for your reply. Quote Link to comment
+arisoft Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 33 minutes ago, Forest-Ghost said: So I am not sure where to find the "img.geocaching.com/cache/large" extension for my photos. It is the link to the image from the gallery before the link is opened. I grab the link from right mouse button menu / copy link address. For example this image https://img.geocaching.com/cache/large/cbeda0bb-de40-464d-b296-f96f2f39c09d.jpg changes to this when opened https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/cbeda0bb-de40-464d-b296-f96f2f39c09d_l.jpg The original link is available from the thumbnail in the gallery. 1 Quote Link to comment
+GeoElmo6000 Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 (edited) 53 minutes ago, Forest-Ghost said: That does indeed sound like exactly what I am looking for. My photo links all look something like this though: h ttps://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/903c9086-234d-43b7-8cec-e4eba8d44463_l_l.png 14 minutes ago, arisoft said: For example this image https://img.geocaching.com/cache/large/cbeda0bb-de40-464d-b296-f96f2f39c09d.jpg changes to this when opened https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/cbeda0bb-de40-464d-b296-f96f2f39c09d_l.jpg Forest-Ghost, what arisoft said is helpful. You'll see the link I mentioned on your cache listing page just before the log area after you upload the image. Another shortcut is that the uncompressed image doesn't have the _l at the end before the .jpg. If you remove that, you'll get the same image but uncompressed. I can see a difference using arisoft's example: https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/cbeda0bb-de40-464d-b296-f96f2f39c09d_l.jpg vs https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/cbeda0bb-de40-464d-b296-f96f2f39c09d.jpg The letter example you gave has two _l's before the .png for some reason, so I removed both and it's a slightly better image: https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/903c9086-234d-43b7-8cec-e4eba8d44463.png Once again, I hope this helps. Edited August 14, 2018 by GeoElmo6000 fixed hyperlinks 1 Quote Link to comment
+Forest-Ghost Posted August 14, 2018 Author Share Posted August 14, 2018 Thank you! Yes, that did it. I really appreciate all your help! I knew the images were being compressed but didn't realize there was a way to bypass that. I was able to directly copy the link and then removed the word large and also tried removing _I. Both work very nicely. Quote Link to comment
+mimaef Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 If you have trouble in the future or want to mass add images, I've always had good luck with https://ultraimg.com/ Quote Link to comment
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